Anonymous Report This Comment Date: November 26, 2005 04:36AM
My all time favorite WW2 aircraft, that and the P-38 Lightning. Back in '96 I
worked with a crew at the Reno air races on one of the P-51 unlimiteds. Helped
them swap out an engine with a blown #7 cylinder...took all saturday night into
the early morning hours. The team had three spare engines in the
trailer...valued at $250,000 each!
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: November 26, 2005 04:51AM
the addison airport (suburb of dallas) has the cavanaugh flight museum. they
have 2 fully operational corsairs,my fav. they have a mock battle with 2 p-40's
and a zero every year. totally kick ass! the p-40's chase the zero around then
the zero lets out a plume of smoke and dives. too cool!
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: November 26, 2005 04:57AM
I need to see that for sure! I've paid stupid amounts of money for rides in WW2
aircraft...got a ride in a B-17G, flew an AT6 Texan for a couple of hours over
Puget sound in Washington state, down to Roseburg, Oregon and back...awesome,
not very hard to fly, but handles like a bus!
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: November 26, 2005 05:33AM
it's pretty cool, when the shows over the pilots do a autograph session and
answer questions etc.. i think you would enjoy it. the confederate air force
makes an appearance also but they're separate groups.